- Address
- Highway 16 and Snaring Road
- Type
- Houses
- Designated
- 1988
Ice House
In French: Centre national de formation glacière
Highway 16 and Snaring Road, Jasper
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Ice House
Ice House is one of 13 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings in Jasper. By its record, Ice House was built in 1936–1948. One neighbour on the registers lies within 400 m.
One of a complex of twelve buildings known as the National Training Centre, the Ice House is a two-storey, gable-roofed structure constructed with a rustic vocabulary of materials that includes horizontal logs and shakes. It features a full storey basement with a plain entrance door and a second level, small, wooden sundeck. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Ice House · Open Government Licence – Canada · quoted as the register has it
The federal government rates the heritage buildings it owns as Classified or Recognized.
Make it a walk: 2 historic places in about 5 minutes
Jasper · about 100 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Ice HouseStart here
- 2Machine ShedRecognized Federal Heritage Building · next door
1 within 300 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Questions about Ice House
When was Ice House built?
Work on Ice House is recorded as 1936–1948.
What is Ice House?
Since 1988, Ice House has been a Recognized Federal Heritage Building.
Can you visit Ice House?
As a home it is probably lived in, so it is best seen from outside.
Is Ice House protected?
The federal heritage policy applies while Canada owns it.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).